Women, Food & Hormones (Sara Gottfried, M.D.)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Lemonada Media

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Our guest today is Dr. Sara Gottfried - a Harvard educated doctor, scientist, researcher, mother, and seeker with 25 years of experience practicing precision, functional, and integrative medicine. Gottfried specializes in root cause analysis, as she firmly believes that the greatest health transformations unfold when you address the root cause of illness, not simply the signs. She is the author of three New York Times best selling books focused on healing our cells, and our souls. Today we discuss her most recent book Women, Food, and Hormones. Yes, we talked about all of those things, but we also explored the culture of weight and wellness, and why the scale is not always a predictor of our health. She took us through the intricacies of our metabolic function, and we together questioned whether the “perfect” body we have in our head even matches the body that allows us to function at our best. As she explains: “I feel like women are stuck. They're stuck between diet culture, which I think many of us reject this idea that we're supposed to be thinner, obedient, smaller, take up less space and have these unrealistic standards for how we're supposed to look. And then we also have the fat acceptance movement. And what I like to do is to position myself in the middle where the focus is on metabolic health.” She walks us through her protocol for hormone balance, opening up detoxification pathways, and even gives us a script for talking to our doctors and regaining agency when it comes to our health. Gottfried implores us to remember that we are deserving of support at any age, and that righteous indignation when it comes to our health can move mountains. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Discussion of Diet Culture & Body Positivity: Approx. 5:24 Metabolic Health: Approx. 9:40 Importance of Testosterone for Women: Approx. 19:31 Wearables: Approx. 23:48 The Ketogenic Diet for Women: Approx. 28:34 Detox: Approx. 38:42 Discussion of Courageous Conversations with Doctors: Approx. 49:54 MORE FROM SARA GOTTFRIED, M.D.: Women, Food, and Hormones Dr. Sara Gottfried’s Website Dutch Hormone Test Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi friends. Throughout this holiday season, you will find me right here per normal. We will keep
0:06.6	publishing new episodes every week and a few solos thrown in as well. So when you just need to escape
0:14.2	from the business of the holiday shuffle or take a break from mom or dad or who knows who,
0:19.8	we'll be here as we always are.
0:26.8	Hi, it's Elise Loonen, host of Pulling the Thread.
0:34.4	I'm an author, a podcast host, and parent who built a long career in media. I grew up
0:39.4	in a state of perpetual curiosity, investigating the world and asking a lot of questions. In this show,
0:46.4	I chat with culture defining leaders, thinkers, and experts about this rare moment that we find
0:51.6	ourselves in and how to think about our own lives and experiences
0:55.0	within a larger social and spiritual construct.
0:59.0	Our guest today is Sarah Goughfried, a Harvard-educated doctor, scientist, researcher, mother, and seeker,
1:06.0	with 25 years of experience practicing precision, functional, and integrative medicine.
1:12.5	Gottfried specializes in root cause analysis as she firmly believes that the greatest health
1:17.5	transformations unfold when you address the source of illness, not simply the signs.
1:23.4	She is the author of three New York Times bestselling books focused on healing ourselves and our souls.
1:29.3	Today, we discuss her most recent book, Women, Food, and Hormones, which just made the New York
1:34.5	Times bestsellers list. Yes, we talked about all of those things, but we also explored the
1:39.7	culture of weight and wellness and why the scale is not always a predictor of our health.
1:44.8	She took us through the intricacies of our metabolic function, and we together question
1:48.8	whether the perfect body we have in our heads even matches the body that allows us to function
1:54.4	at our best.
1:56.1	I feel like women are stuck.
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